Re: Astonishing allocation bug in glib-2.16.4 compiled with gcc 2.96

[Alessandro Vesely <vesely tana it>]

Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> Well, it *is* mentioned in the docs, with explanations:
>
>   http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-running.html
>
> ;)

Alas, I missed it. However, I guess mono developers read it. After 
googling mono-project.com for G_SLICE, I'd say that page didn't work ;-)

> Also, since it apparently activates different code paths than normal
> operation, I'm not sure if it makes sense using that in the test
> suite...

I didn't mean glib's test suite. What I wanted to say is that any 
client program that has its own test suite should enable debug-blocks 
in it. The above page should explicitly encourage such practice, IMHO.
Overlapping variables not always result in program crashes, it can be 
worse.